If you can, have a listen to just the first 1:44 of this audio file (Flash required). Wow, how clever—be an optimist, see an opportunity...and cheat a photographer. Makes you roll your eyes and shake your head that they sound so pleased about this, doesn't it?
I know we get like a broken record sometimes, but don't be anyone's fool. Start by reading Ken Jarecke on the one tool that isn't talked about nearly enough.
Mike
(Thanks to Farrell Hall)
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amcananey: "For what it's worth, I've heard a similar version of the story, but it wasn't quite so sinister. In the version I heard, the telegram to the copyright holder didn't say "how much are you willing to pay [for us to use your picture]", it instead said something more ambiguous, like "how much to use your picture" and was intended as a serious request for a price quote (although I seem to remember them presenting it as though there were multiple competing pictures they were considering, and price would be a strong factor in determining which picture to use—though of course the pamphlets had already been printed with the picture at issue). Again, in the version I heard, it was actually a surprise (as opposed to the intended outcome) when the recipient of the telegram misunderstood and wrote back with their bid of how much they would pay."
